This Japanese Scientist Changed How We Understand Bird Language

For over 20 years, Professor Toshitaka Suzuki dedicated his life to show that birds don't just make noise, but rather, combine sounds in structured ways that resemble complex language. Through years of careful observation and creative experiments, he discovered something incredible: these birds have specific words for objects much like we do and can combine these words to form sentences.

We explore this in detail in Part 1:    • After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Bird...  
Where we look at how he proves that birds can in fact talk and use grammar in detail.

In this video, we go beyond grammar and into communication itself. Looking at how early birds seem to learn language in their life, whether different species can understand one another, and even whether birds can lie.

Together, these findings challenge the idea that language is uniquely human and suggest that communication, meaning and understanding may have evolved far earlier than we once believed.

#birds #science #linguistics #nature #animalcommunication
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Videos of Professor Suzuki:
鈴木 俊貴/ 受賞者プレゼンテーション World OMOSIROI Award 10th.
Animal Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Language - Toshitaka Suzuki, The University of Tokyo

Finnish Program - https://areena.yle.fi/1-3405613

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